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44:1  For the Music Director. A Contemplative Maskil of the sons of Korah. We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us what work You did in their days, in the days of old:
44:2  how You drove out the nations with Your hand, and planted others instead; how You afflicted peoples, and sent them away.
44:3  For they did not take possession of the land by their own sword, nor did their own arm save them; but it was Your right hand, and Your arm, and the light of Your countenance, because You had favor on them.
44:4  You are my King, O God; command deliverances for Jacob.
44:5  Through You we will push down our opponents; through Your name we will trample those who rise up against us.
44:6  For I will not trust in my bow, nor will my sword save me.
44:7  But You have saved us from our opponents, and have put to shame those who hate us.
44:8  In God we boast all the day long, and give thanks to Your name forever. Selah
44:9  But You have rejected us and put us to shame, and do not go out with our armies.
44:10  You make us to turn back from the opponent, and those who hate us make us their spoil.
44:11  You have placed us like sheep for prey, and have scattered us among the nations.
44:12  You sell Your people for nothing, and do not increase Your wealth by their sale.
44:13  You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to those who surround us.
44:14  You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the people.
44:15  All day long my reproach is before me, and the shame of my face covers me,
44:16  from the voice of him who reproaches and reviles, by reason of the enemy and avenger.
44:17  All this is come on us, yet we have not forgotten You, nor have we dealt falsely in Your covenant.
44:18  Our heart is not turned back, nor have our steps deviated from Your way,
44:19  though You have crushed us in the place of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.
44:20  If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god,
44:21  would not God search this out? For He knows the secrets of the heart.
44:22  Yes, for Your sake we are killed all the day long; we are considered like sheep for the slaughter.
44:23  Awake; why do You sleep, O Lord? Arise; do not reject us forever.
44:24  Why do You hide Your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?
44:25  For our soul is bowed down to the dust; our body cleaves to the earth.
44:26  Arise, be our help, and redeem us for the sake of Your lovingkindness.